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August Love Quotes

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“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” ~ Unknown

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller

“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.” ~Unknown

“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.” ~Rusty Silvey

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~John Keats

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ~Victor Hugo

“Love – a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.” ~Unknown

“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.” ~ Stacie Cunningham

“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Roy Croft

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Those who love deeply never grow old.” ~Anonymous

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~Janos Arnay

Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings” ~Unknown

“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”~Victor Robinson

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.” ~Unknown

love quotes“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin

“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.” ~Sammy Cahn

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~Barbara De Angelis

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~Jane Austen

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark

“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…” ~ Lord Byron

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~H. L. Mencken

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich Segal

“We can only learn to love by loving.” ~Iris Murdoch

“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ~ Francis Bacon

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergman

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~Albert Einstein

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” ~Erich Fromm

“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.” ~Emily Dickinson

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~Amelia Burr

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” ~Euripides

Romantic Quotes

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Are you looking for some romantic quotes for your girlfriend, or boyfriend? You are in the perfect place.

I love thee – I love thee,
‘Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day. ~Thomas Hood

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~John Keats

I love your hills and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating;
but oh, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating! ~John Keats

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss

If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. ~John Donne

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day. ~Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency. ~Gilbert Parker

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. ~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795

Oh, hasten not this loving act,
Rapture where self and not-self meet:
My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart’s beat. ~Paul Valéry

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare

Romantic QuotesTo lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. ~Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun. ~Robert Herrick, “To Anthea (III)”

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite. ~William Shakespeare

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover

The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven’s marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee? ~Author Unknown

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore

I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are. ~Hartley Coleridge

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings

A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[L]eave a kiss but in the cup, and I’ll not look for wine. ~Ben Jonson, To Celia

Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. ~Catherine of Aragon, 1535

25 Inspiring Quotes

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1. You had the power all along my dear. – Glinda the Good Witch.

2. Today is a new day. – Chicken Little

3. When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either. – Leo Burnett

4. What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

5. Earth’s crammed with heaven. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6. Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne

7. She decided to enjoy more and endure less. – Unknown

8. I am unfolding in fulfilling ways. Only good can come to me. I now express health, happiness, prosperity, and peace of mind. – Unknown

9. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours. – Ayn Rand

10. There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. – Julia Cameron

11. Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. – Andre Gide

12. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions all life is an experience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. If the future road loom ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. – Maya Angelou

14. Breath in experience. – Muriel Rukeyser

15. Speak your mind even if your voice shakes. – Unknown

16. I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful. – Louise Hay

17. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. – Mae West

18. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

19. Sprinkle joy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. – Johann von Goethe

21. She realized that she was missing a great deal by being sensible. – Unknown

22. She was kind and loving and patient…with herself. – Unknown

23. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams

24. You’ll never be sad if you remember all the good things that have happened to you. – Karolina Grekov

25. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. – Unknown

Valentine’s Day Quotes

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Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone! Today is a special day for all lovers around the world, and we gonna celebrate it in our own way, with a great list of valentine’s day quotes. Enjoy :)

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine. ~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day’s Saint Valentine’s.
For that good bishop’s sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns. ~Michael Drayton

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

kisses are a better fate than wisdom. ~e.e. cummings

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde

In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine. ~Author Unknown

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”

I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you. ~Author Unknown

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning

Top 20 Love Quotes of All Time

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1. “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergmen

2. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

3. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities” – Janos Arnay

4. “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” – Margaret Anderson

5. “…..I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met…” – The Wedding Date

6. “Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” – Aphra Behn

7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

8. “In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.” – Bliss and Cerney

9. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt

10. You make me want to be a better man” – Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets

11. Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we’re gone.” – Titanic Theme, My Heart Will Go On

12. “What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…” – Elizabeth Barret Browning

13. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. “Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” – Robert Browning

15. “If every raindrop would be one of your smiles, I wish it rains heavily throughout, so that there is no space for unhappiness in your life” – Unknown

16. “I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

17. “You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block

18. “Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.” – Euripides

19. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

20. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.” – Victor Hugo